242 SALUSBURY 



Sir John was evidently of a most cheerful disposition, and we 

 wish that a page had not been mutilated on which was written 

 A 7iotable sentence wherewith Sir John Salusbierye was woonte 



to solace him S\elfe. 

 Often with a mery thought, do I myselfe well please 

 it is a thing that coste me nought, yet dooth .... [paper torn]. 



[Christ Church MS. 184, f. i 



Three of Sir John's notes referring to plants which he grew in 

 his garden at Lleweni are printed with accounts of other garden 

 plants below, but his other notes all refer to stations of native 

 Welsh plants, and are usually authenticated with the addition of 

 his name in full, ' Sir John Salusbury, Knight '. The records are 

 the earliest known to me for Denbighshire and the adjoining 

 counties. 



The plants, though interesting, are not very rare and had mostly 

 been localized by William Turner, or by Gerard, in England. The 

 locality for MattJiiola simiata appears, however, to be the earliest 

 given for this plant in Britain. 



William Salusbury's Localities, c. 1597. 



Radish (? Raphatuts sativtis). Transplanted by W. Salusbury from meadow 



adjacent to the Abbey at Maenan, near mouth of the Llugwy, to his garden 



at Llanrwst. 

 Radish sp. Llannefydd ; Denbigh ; Llantwrog. 



Marsh Mallow {Althaea officinalis). Llansannan. 



Rest harrow {Ononis spinosa). Plas yn Llewini. 



Gromell {Lithospermum officinale). Denbigh ; Whitford ; near Mostyn. 



Chamomile {Anthemis sp.). Llannefydd; Llewini; near Llangollen; 



Dolgeiley. 

 Mistletoe {Viscum album). ' I saw it with berries in March near the Bont- 



vaen near Chirk, and without berries all the way to Ludlow.' 

 Fig. Conway; ' maesglas yn tegeingl, 2 m. from. Holy well.' 



Great Cat's tail {Typha latifolia). Whittington Castle, 2 m. from Oswestry. 



Great Water Plantain {Alisina plantago). In a pool by the great house of 



Sir John Salusbury [presumably at Lleweni]. 

 Rye. Plas Llewini 1555. 



Maidenhair Spleenwort {Asplenium trichomanes). Bettws y Coed. 



Harts tongue fern. Talacre in Flint ; in a wooded glen near Llannefydd. 



Sir John Salusbury's Localities, 1606-.S. 



Papaver argemone L. 



This hearbe is to be found by Llansanan hard by Ryd y Rienn or at Aber 

 in Carnarvonshire. 



Cravibe maritima L. 



English Sea Colewort, 'by my weare at Llanddylas upon the Baich and 

 brine of the Sea, where there is no Earth to be scene but sande & pible 

 stones'. In flower 30 May 1606. 



